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passage-house

passage-house is the alternative form of passage house.

Meaning of passage house

Noun

passage house (plural passage houses)

  1. (obsolete, rare) An outbuilding used for the passage of feces: an outhouse.
    Synonyms:
    outhouse
  2. (archaic, rare) A building providing transportation across a passage: a ferryhouse.

Forms of passage-house

pluralpassage-houses

Questions about passage-house

What is passage-house the alternative form of?
Passage-house is the alternative form of passage house.

Words near passage-house in the dictionary

  1. passage planning
  2. passage plans
  3. passage tomb
  4. passage tombs
  5. Passage West
  6. passage-house
  7. passage-houses
  8. passageable
  9. passageboard
  10. passageboards
  11. passaged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: passage-house (page history and authors); passage house (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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